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In contrast to the haphazardly evolved Chinese characters, how is Pīnyīn well-designed, neat, and orderly, like the manufacturing processes inside our cells?
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How can we ask rhetorical questions in Mandarin?
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What are some factors affecting whether or not Mandarin field language learners know certain basic truths about the Chinese languages?
Allowing various untruths to continue to divert and bog down the language-learning efforts of those who come to help in the worldwide Mandarin field can have incalculable overall negative effects on the preaching work in this enormous field.
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What are some common myths and misconceptions about Pīnyīn?
If a Mandarin expression can only be understood when it’s written in characters, then it will lead to a failure to communicate when it’s spoken.
If a Mandarin expression can be understood when it’s spoken, then it can be understood when it’s written in _Pīnyīn_. — Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) October 24, 2020
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For Mandarin field language learners, how does Zhùyīn compare with Pīnyīn?
Zhùyīn, or Bopomofo, in regular, handwritten regular, and cursive formats
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What can help us talk to Mandarin-speaking people about whether God used evolution to create living things?
To represent how God caused humans to come into existence, the Mandarin New World Translation Bible uses “chuàngzào”, and the Héhé Běn (Union Version Chinese Bible) uses “zào”. Both these expressions contain the sense of “made, created”, and perhaps “built”.
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How can we talk to people in Mandarin about whether economic reform can bring world peace?
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How can we talk in Mandarin about the well-designed natural cycles that make life possible on earth?
A map showing Beijing’s ring roads (source)
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What different expressions are used in the Mandarin NWT Bible to refer to different kinds of peace?
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What could we say to people in Mandarin about artificial intelligence (AI)?
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How can we talk about and show empathy in the Mandarin field?
This week’s MEotW in the unofficial Pīnyīn Plus resource “Sing Out Joyfully” Bk. (Pīnyīn+Music, Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
A screenshot from an official video, of Sis. Margarita Königer and others using official Pīnyīn Sing to Jehovah songbooks with musical notation
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Faced with the cultural and traditional Goliath that is the Chinese characters, how can we imitate David?
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How can we talk to people in Mandarin about current issues related to energy, like high gas prices, etc.?
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What can help us to avoid being unfair to others, to ourselves, and to Jehovah in the Mandarin field?
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How can we say in Mandarin that Jesus will soon bring an end to all violence?
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How can we say in Mandarin that the galaxies are distributed according to a pattern?
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While the manufacturing processes inside our cells are not haphazard, how is the design of Chinese characters haphazard?
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How might a Mandarin-speaking person say “it doesn’t matter how we worship God”?
Lyrics for the Faye Wong song “Shìyán” (“Pledge”) in Apple Music, on an iPad
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What understanding can help us Mandarin field language learners to move beyond “knowing just enough to be dangerous”?
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Why should we not balk when faced with the Great Wall of Characters, or when faced with the alternate Pīnyīn ways past it?
This week’s MEotW in the unofficial Pīnyīn Plus resource “Sing Out Joyfully” Bk. (Pīnyīn+Music, Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
Do we balk when faced with the Great Wall of Characters?
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